DCOP for smart homes: a case study

Computational Intelligence

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 395-419

  Pecora, Federico ^a   Cesta, Amedeo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

ambient intelligence; distributed constraint optimization; integrated intelligent systems; multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE; DISTRIBUTED CONSTRAINT OPTIMIZATION; INTEGRATED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT ARTIFACTS;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 37249051030     PISSN: 08247935     EISSN: 14678640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8640.2007.00313.x     Document Type: Article

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